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Werner Max Krüger * 1915
Lohhof 11 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
1941 KZ Neuengamme
ermordet 16.06.1942
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Edith Krüger
Werner Max Krüger, born 9 Mar. 1915, imprisoned 1941 in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp, date of death 16 June 1942
Unlike his mother, Werner Max Krüger joined the Hamburg Jewish Religious Association. His last job was with a company on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße. In 1935 he met Elsa J., who lived at Kleine Bäckerstraße 30 and was Protestant and "Aryan.” The Nuremberg Laws of 15 September 1935 prevented them from marrying or living together. Their son Werner Herbert was born on 26 December 1936. Werner Max Krüger acknowledged the paternity in 1937. Despite the prohibitions, he lived with his family and supported them as best he could.
In May 1941, the Gestapo pressured Max Werner Krüger to separate from his fiancée. Immediately after signing the separation documents he was sent to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. The death register there lists his place and date of death as Bernburg, 16 June 1942. His murder was part of a special euthanasia operation, in which prisoners from Neuengamme who were particularly weak were sent to the Bernburg extermination institution and gassed to death. On the official death certificate, the cause of death was given as pulmonary and intestinal tuberculosis, and the place of death as Neuengammer Hausdeich 60.
After the war, on 30 March 1946, the marriage between Elsa J. and Werner Krüger was declared valid, so that she and her son could bear the name Krüger.
Translator: Amy Lee
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: October 2016
© Hildegard Thevs mit Bettina Nathan
Quellen: 1; 4; 5; Archiv KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme; AfW 090315; mündliche Mitteilungen von Angehörigen; Klee, Ernst, "Euthanasie" im NS-Staat, Frankfurt/M., 1989, S. 345–351.
